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Between Action and CritiqueNitzan Zilberman
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ACTION
1 - Sites Arrange Structures p. 6-13
3 - Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Building p. 22-27
10 - Jerusalem Courthouse p. 52-55
9 - Vertical Living p. 48-51
4 - Lay of the Land: The Israeli Pavilion, Habitat III International Convention p. 30-33
CRITIQUE7 - The Lifta Train-Inn p. 36-41
2 - Society Jam p. 14-21
6 - St. Peter's Basilica Study Models p. 34-35
8 - A Tokyo Screen p. 42-47
5 - Objective, Subjective: Video Installation p. 28-29
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SITES ARRANGE STRUCTURES
Academic / Professional: Third year studio project (In collaboration with Nir Leshem)
Studio Instructor's: Dan Handel, Daniel Zarhy
Program: Office building
Location: Northern Israel
ACTION
An office building planned to naturally suit the
steep terrain of the site and the specific needs of
the four department company inhabiting it. The
research focused on studying the employee’s daily
schedules, calculating travel time and walking
distances within the premises, and mapping the
specific spaces where each of the company’s
units spends most of their time. Through the
findings exhibited in the documents, we created
a building that allows employees both to "take
their time" and be efficient. We envisioned these
contradicting values as a foundation to forming a
healthier work environment. The project, dipped
in greenery and inner courtyards, includes ramps
that stitch together the four single-story buildings,
and offer a long walk around the site, as well as
stairs and a diagonal elevator for a quick transition
between the departments.
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1. View from neighbour building 2. View towards office space 3. Shade study
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Cross sectionBack elevation
Front elevation
Diagrams mapping workers schedules and daily routinesDiagrams showing the different layout possibilities of the program Diagram showing the fast and slow circulation
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ACTION
SOCIETY JAM
Academic / Professional: Final thesis project
Studio Instructor's: Erez Ella, Osnat Tadmor, Iddo Ginat
Program: Municipality building
Location: Raanana, Israel
My thesis project is a response to the growing
amount of commercial spaces in public and
cultural buildings as a result of privatization-
with emphasis on BOT projects. The foundations
for this project is Rem Koolhaas’s book “Harvard
Design School Guide to Shopping” and Tony
Benett’s book “The Birth of the Museum”. While
Koolhaas believes that “Shopping is arguably the
last remaining form of public activity”, Benett
compares the museum to the department store
at the end of the 18th century and acknowledges
that they have much in common. Finding the
common factors between the commercial and
the cultural space enables us to set aside terms
like “high culture” and “low culture” and refer to
them as equals. Therefore the heart of the project
is the organization of the space according to the
activity taking place in it. In this way- the project
does not differentiate the display of art pieces
in the museum from the display of products in
a store window. Watching art in a gallery and
window shopping involve the same essential
activity, therefore instead of an art gallery and a
shop- there can be one space- a display room.
The disassembly of the commercial and cultural
spaces into the activities that build them enables
us to create a new public space where the mall,
library, art gallery, and municipality collide and
form a somewhat harmonic, somewhat irritating
space. In this way the building is neither a negative,
positive or extreme representation of this hybrid
but a mirror to the “Society Jam” we are all part of.
CRITIQUE
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Display space Watching room
Sitting zone Choosing hall
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Building diagram Catalog of objects for display Commidity ArtView to the building's roof
Storage space isometry
Plans of sitting zone's
Auditorium isometry
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ACTION
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Building
Academic / Professional: Studio PEZ (Part of a three-member team)
Status: International Competition, Finalist
Program: Laboratories, Clean Rooms, Public Program, Researchers
Location: Tel Aviv University Campus, Israel
A laboratory building that is unique but also
functional, iconic yet integrates with the campus,
specific but also flexible and modular. The
suggested Nanocenter building redefines the
paradigm of the laboratory building. It challenges
the typology’s conventions and creates flexible
and modular laboratories in addition to a generous
interaction space, a place for communication and
collaboration which lead to scientific innovation.
During the planning process, we imagined
the building as a gradient from an object to
the campus, from maximum laboratory layout
flexibility to maximum human interactivity, from
individual concentration to group communication.
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Elevation Cross section
Building diagram
View to main Hall View to main hall
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Ground and second floor plans
Facade study
Facade details
View to lab area
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CRITIQUE
OBJECTIVE, SUBJECTIVE:VIDEO INSTALLATION
Academic / Professional: First Year project
(In collaboration with Noam Levy)
Studio Instructor: Oren Sagiv
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CRITIQUE
Throughout its 68 years of existence, the State
of Israel has faced an ever increasing demand
for housing, due to large waves of immigration.
Yet from 2008, and even more so after the 2011
social protests that shifted political focus, the
country has been dealing with a highly debated
housing crisis that has led to an unprecedented
scope of planning. Whilst both concrete planning
and public attention are centered on producing
residential units, this outstanding planning and
building surge offers a unique opportunity to
explore the spaces it creates in-between - the
chance for a hands-on transformation of the
Israeli urban environment. The Israeli pavilion
at Habitat III sought to gather the wide range
of Israeli urban initiatives - from policy making
to the actions of young grassroots leaders, from
advanced infrastructures to revitalizing markets,
and from sustainable environmental enterprises
to social and community building. The pavilion
offered a fresh look at these different urban
enterprises by placing them along two axis: one
between the poles of research and action, the
other between bottom-up and top-down needs.
We sought to assemble and synchronize the
diverse initiatives into an urban layer which can
then be put on the map” and serve as a tool for
planners, researchers, artists and policy makers;
allowing an understanding of the lay of the land
both in terms of its built manifestations and
in terms of the means for producing a varied
and high-quality public sphere, vibrant with
human activity. Such means will drive future
planning to take into consideration not only
buildings but also the people inhabiting them.
ACTION
LAY OF THE LAND: THE ISRAELI PAVILION, HABITAT III INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
Academic / Professional: HQ Architects (Team leader)
Status: Built
Program: 50 sqm national pavilion
Location: Quito, Ecuador
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CRITIQUE
Mass Line
ST. PETER'S BASILICA STUDY MODELS
Academic / Professional: First year basic design course
Course Instructor: Nilly R. Harag
The models research three different aspects of
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, each time using a
different material. The first model studies "mass"
and uses perspex and wood, the second studies
"line" and uses iron rods , and the third, using
cardboard, offers a personal interpretation to the
building through the concept of "scaffold".
Scaffold
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CRITIQUE
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THE LIFTA TRAIN - INN
Academic / Professional: Fourth year studio project
Studio Instructor: Nilly R. Harag
Program: Hotel
Location: Lifta village, at the outskirts of Jerusalem, Israel
In Israel, a country ruled without separation of
religion and state, public transportation is not
allowed to run during weekends and holidays.
This interval in time allows for a full appreciation
of the vast space of the tunnel, the outstanding
acoustics, and its unusual chiaroscuro as a site
for planning. The "Lifta Train-Inn" offers weekend
long accommodation in one of Israel's most
controversial sites. Lifta- a Palestinian Arab village
whose population was driven out during the Arab-
Jewish hostilities of 1948. The hotel is situated
inside the tunnels and does not interfere with the
rare remains of the classical Arab houses. Guests
are not permitted to leave the tunnel and enter
the deserted village, but only to observe it. The
silent beauty of the valley holds a complex history
of Israeli-Palestinian conflict and hopefully makes
the visitor's weekend an eye opening one.
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View through air tunnel Plans of three escape tunnels
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CRITIQUE
A TOKYO SCREEN
Academic / Professional: Third year studio project (In collaboraion with Dana Lieber)
Studio Instructor: Erez Golani Solomon
Program: Animated film
Location: Tokyo, Japan
A six-week long studio based in Tokyo, Japan.
The studio's aim was to create a flash-animated
film about the concept of "time", influenced
by experiences and thoughts that arose while
travelling and searching the new city. The film
deals with the giant screens scattered around
Tokyo. These screens function as electronic
billboards that represent architectural elements,
and use information to create an infinite
alternating sequence. The screen is a "source
of authority" that can influence the viewer's
perception of time. Spreading the giant screens
in public spaces, that are open and have limited
control, tempts pedestrians to stop and watch. For
this reason, the presence of screens influences the
movement, pace and processes of the city. "Studio
Alta" screen, the first giant screen in Tokyo, is the
site of the film and becomes a bridge between the
external environment and that of the screen. We
cross the screen and through the single abstract
pixel we pass to a new reality, where dimensions
of time and space become misty and illogic, and
the architectural and geometric rules change.
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ACTION
VERTICAL LIVING
Academic / Professional: Second year studio project
Studio Instructor: Anat Almog
Program: Residental building
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
When examining the typology of housing projects
in a specific area in Jerusalem, one of the most
dominant characteristics was the constant
horizontal split of the apartments. Having that
in mind, the concept of the project was to split
the buildings differently - vertically instead of
horizontally. The building was split into 14 units,
creating a 5-meter-wide housing that spreads out
on four floors. These tall houses refer to residential
buildings in Tokyo and Amsterdam and break the
constant pattern of residential buildings in Israel.
Apart from a new way of living, these houses offer
private entrances for each resident and a private
roof balcony. These added values, together with
the fact that building narrow and high economizes
space, form a new way of looking at residential
housing.
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Isometry Study Models
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JERUSALEM COURTHOUSE
Academic / Professional: Studio PEZ
Status: International competition, First prize, In progress
Program: Courthouse halls, judges chambers, secretariats, public areas and parking
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
The Courthouse is composed of two main parts:
the plinth - containing the communal public
functions, and the different courthouse buildings
stemming from it. The plinth forms a continuous
facade to the street and creates a sense of
transparency. It contains the main entrance,
communal public functions and integrates the
courthouse into the city. Above it the various
courthouses “grow”. It is characterized by a clear
circulation scheme which leads to easy orientation
and a sense of place. The different functions are
organized around a central “street”, penetrated
by a spacious void that connects the three
plinth levels and the vertical circulation systems
are located in a prominent location creating a
feeling that the building is welcoming and clear.
The New Jerusalem Courthouse integrates into
the city’s context and to the new master plan
for the entrance quarter to the city. The delicate
balance between the “building blocks” challenges
the monolithic image of justice and creates an
iconic building with a modest, human scale.
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Ground and first floor plans
Glare analysis Natural light in courthouses
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